- If time is taken as the image of the eternal,
what is then the time density?
- For the density of fifty years ask
a prisoner for life, he will tell exactly,
for the density of thirty, ask a couple of married,
of fifteen years, ask a physician,
of four years, a student will reply,
of two years, a soldier in the army,
of nine months, ask a mother in childbed.
- Then what about dense density?
- For one week a worker will tell you,
for eight hours, better ask a surgeon,
for half an hour, a fast-food cook knows,
for one minute, the last passenger does,
for one second, a castaway who survived,
for a third, a sprinter before the thread of finish.
- Then what’s sparse density of life?
- Is what a conqueror or a ruler has lost
(due to malaria, drunkenness, ulcer or poison)
without making himself the change he wanted,
and misses the grace that he never embraced.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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